Tom Hume wrote:
> Can you explain to me in more detail how the strength of pre-pay in
> Europe means that we won't see better quality cameras over here for
> another 3 years?
Because an average pre-pay user in Europe spends about US$ 10/month,
while an average mobile user in Japan spends about US$ 70-80/month,
and some a lot more than that.
So DoCoMo and KDDI and Vodafone (in Japan) have a lot more money in
the kitty per user to subsidize nice handsets - especially for those
users with high billing.
The economics of mobile communications are not as easy as it
looks at first sight...
Gerhard
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fasol_at_eurotechnology.com http://www.eurotechnology.com/
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